East Naples man accused of attacking driver with baseball bat, robbing him

An East Naples man already jailed on robbery charges faces new charges stemming from a baseball bat attack two weeks earlier.

Urijah Williams, 21, is charged with aggravated assault, armed robbery and criminal mischief in connection with a July 3 attack on a man in the Freedom Square shopping center parking lot on U.S. 41 East.

The man told deputies he was sitting in his car at the nearby Marathon gas station Food Mart about 12 a.m. when Williams started harassing him for money, according to a Collier County Sheriff's Office report.

Fearing he was about to be robbed, the man drove away, with Williams following him, and turned into the shopping center parking lot to call 911, the report states.

Williams got out of his SUV with a baseball bat and smashed the man's driver-side window, the report says. When the man got out, according to reports, Williams struck him on the head with the bat several times.

The bloodied man was knocked to the ground, and Williams took his phone and debit card, the report states.

The attack left the man's shirt, steering wheel and driver-side door covered in blood. He needed multiple staples in his head to treat lacerations, the report states.

Two weeks later, Williams and Ashley Macias, an acquaintance of the victim, were charged in a robbery on Pineland Avenue in East Naples, according to reports. Williams also wielded a bat in that attack, the reports say.

Macias told deputies she thought Williams was jealous that she was with the Freedom Square victim and that's why he attacked him, the report states.